Urban Chinese governance, contention, and social control in the new millennium / edited by William Hurst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hurst, William, 1975- editor.

Series:

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions; volume218.

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions; volume218

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal government--China.

Municipal government.

Municipal government--China--Citizen participation.

Urban policy--China--Citizen participation.

Urban policy.

City dwellers--Political activity--China.

City dwellers.

Political participation--China.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

This collection includes seven essays translated from the leading Chinese-language journal Open Times. Bringing together a wide range of leading experts across several disciplines, this book offers critical insights on some of the most important questions of contemporary urban Chinese politics and society. Drawing on extensive research across different localities and issues in China, the chapters offer rich data and fresh analyses of the shifting contours of urban governance, social mobilization and contention, and mechanisms of social control in the new Millennium. Taken together, this collection represents the most comprehensive look in some years at how urban Chinese political institutions have adapted and responded to challenges and how social actors and groups have mobilized to press for redress of substantial new grievances.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Series Foreword / Huaiyin Li (李怀印) and Chongqing Wu (吴重庆)

Contributors

Shifting Structures and Agendas in Urban Chinese Governance and Resistance in a New Era / William Hurst

Manufacturing Consent: How Grassroots Government Assimilates Public Resistance / Yonghong Zhang and Ching Kwan Lee

Pluralistic Governance: Reflecting on Participatory Development Theory in Post-disaster Community Reconstruction – a Case Study of the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake New Home Plan / Jiangang Zhu and Ming Hu

Between Home and Society: Urban Women in Environmental Contention – the Example of Opposition to Building a Waste Incineration Power Plant in G City / Xiaoyun Chen and Ran Duan

Media Contact, Public Participation, and Political Efficacy in Sudden Public Incidents: an Empirical Study of the PX Incident in Xiamen / Baohua Zhou

Performative Protests: Landscapes, Challenges, and Opportunity Mechanisms – Two Case Studies from the Pearl River Delta / Zhenhui Huang

The Political Economy of Sex and the Gender Secret of Capitalism: Thoughts on the Debate Surrounding the 2014 Crackdown on Prostitution in Dongguan / Shaopeng Song

Gray Governance and the Reproduction of Urban Violence: Analysis of the Mechanisms of “Urban Management” Practice on Lumo Road / Dewen Lü

Back Matter

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

"This book is a result of the cooperation between Open Times Press and Koninklijke Brill NV. These articles were selected and translated into English from Open Times (Kaifang shidai 开放时代), an academic journal in Chinese."--Title page verso.

ISBN:

90-04-40861-4

OCLC:

1111654435

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004408616 DOI